On the ICM painting pages it show two colours on the upper camoflauge. In the pictures it looks dark green as a grey green which is lighter, much lighter. Yet the colours suggested are
Tamiya XF-27 (RLM70) and XF-61(RLN71). Black Green and Dark Green. Essentially they look pretty much the same colour when applied. I will wait until the XF61 is fully dried first as it does look a bit "greyer" than when wet. Looking at oter pictures the colours do seem close and on others a lot greyer where people have gone for more of a contrast. Am I going mad ?
RLM 70 and RLM 71 are both dark green. In B&W photographs the contrast between the two is so low that they invariably look like one colour (hence the old
Airfix instructions for their 1/24 Ju 87 all those years ago).
Even when seen in rare original colour footage they look similar. This is a capture from a genuine colour film, not colourised.
A lot of modellers like to enhance the difference between the two colours because they think it looks better. That's absolutely fine, it's their model after all!
I try to get the colour as close to 'realistic' as I can.
As you can see, a very low contrast scheme.
You are definitely not going mad
Cheers
Steve